![]() Green tea is generally viewed as the most beneficial of all because its active ingredient is a polyphenol known as epigallocatechin 3-gallate (EGCG). You’ll find the highest polyphenol levels in green and white teas. Green, black and white teas are all rich in polyphenols – compounds from plants that have strong anti-inflammatory effects. ![]() Tea is one of the most-studied drinks when it comes to its benefits for arthritis patients. These recommendations can help you understand the benefits and drawbacks of popular beverages. Water can get a bit boring, but there are other ways to stay healthy and hydrated. The latter can negatively affect your body’s ability to absorb calcium. In general, avoid soda since it can be full of sugar, aspartame and phosphoric acid. The typical recommendation is eight glasses a day. It’s also best to stick with water throughout the day, she says. Start every day with a glass of water before you eat any food, since most people wake up a bit dehydrated, says Sonya Angelone, a dietitian and spokesperson for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. But what you drink, and how much you drink, can have an enormous effect on your body and health, too. PV solar should be a standard part of a pool build, IMO (though I realize there are many factors, across many locations and climates that make that statement a bit naive).There’s an old saying – you are what you eat. I optimize solar, cleaning, filtering, sanitizing and skimming to satisfy my needs, and am free from having to satisfy my electric bill. Semi-related: why anyone would own a pool and not have a PV solar system to offset it's primary expense is beyond me. Point was: in addition to fooling with return direction, you might want to experiment with run times and RPMs. It might be better to run the pump for less time, but at higher RPM, with a few "booster" runs thrown in, to really satisfy your pool's needs. I believe there to be a threshold where your circulation is so low that its benefits are being too greatly compromised in the quest for energy savings. If that's what you're doing, that could be counter productive. Many here strive to run their pumps at very low RPM, with the goal to be constant circulation, all day and night, at minimum energy use. Like 1500RPM for most of the day, then a few 2500RPM runs, as long as necessary, throughout the day, to "polish" the surface. If that was a regular need, I'd just schedule it with automation. But in the winter, if the surface starts getting jammed up, I can push a button and get a high-speed "skimmer mode" to really get the pool water rotating and skimmer sucking. I have solar, so I have plenty of flow and circulation, so that is pretty much fixed in my setup. ![]() Then it's a matter of dialing in my VS to optimize skimming. I increased skimmer efficiency by adding automation to my suction port, so that it draws 100% for cleaning, but then closes to 0% the rest of the time, to maximize water flow through the skimmer. I haven't heard here anything about pump speed. We live next to each other, some amount of cooperation is reasonable. ![]() If the rolls were reversed, I'd have a hard time saying no to that. What kind of relationship do you have with your neighbor? Do you allow them to enjoy the pool? If it were me, I would offer to replace the tree altogether, with something just as nice, but pool-friendly. But I'm definitely open to products and ideas for better skimming! I did experiment with narrowing the opening using bricks when all I could find were smaller weir doors, but didn't find that it made much difference - the single wide weir seems to pull the same amount of debris over the top. Do have to be careful that the skimmer doesn't clog (or the weir door shift and stick closed) or the pump will run dry, but it does seem to help some. It seems that causes more water to be pulled through the skimmer I see less stuff bypassing now. One thing I discoered is that the main drain in my pool just feeds into the top of the skimmer can just below the basket - that was threaded so I put a 1.5" PVC cap on it, basically disabling flow from the drain. I find the weir door to be critical, both to get the water pulling over the top taking debris with it, and to keep the debris from floating back out when the pump is off. Worse, there's just a single return on the other side of the same wall that's just a 1/2" pipe hole, so I can't even put an eyeball on it to direct to the surface. I have a 1960s era pool with a single skimmer that's quite wide (12-13" opening makes it impossible to find a replacement basket and hard to find weir doors).
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